I think this is true of all the small organic fabric companies, but I think Cloud9 Fabrics, with the caliber of their designs and the breadth of artists they are getting onto fabric, is pushing the industry forward in a big way. The collections they were showing at Market — their current collections as well [...]
Admin note: The site is still experiencing outages and significant slowness, but I have a professional on the case now … we should be better-than-normal by this weekend. We’ll be posting whenever we can access WordPress ourselves. Thanks for sticking with us! { photo by Melissa Frantz } Cloud9 Fabrics has so much goodness going [...]
Nature Walk is Cloud9 Fabrics‘ next-next organic fabric collection. It will be available in stores in January 2011 and is their first “price-sensitive” organic collection, with an MSRP of under $12/yard, made possible by using a different basecloth. As they explain on their blog, “Our newest fabric construction is a true, high-end quilter’s squares. Still [...]
Mmmm, who wants a little urea-formaldehyde on their quilting cotton? No? Then consider going organic. Cloud9 Fabrics is a two-woman organic fabric company, the brainchild of Michelle Engel Bencsko and Gina Pantastico. They teamed up last year to create a contemporary, eco-sensible alternative to traditional quilt and craft fabrics. Their wholesale+ fabric line bridges the [...]
My Happy Garden fat quarter bundle. Get a closer look at these prints here. It’s a HUGE month for Michelle Engel Bencsko of Cicada Studio and Cloud9 Fabrics. (And with Quilt Market coming up next month, I don’t think she’ll get to slow down any time soon.) She has designed two fabric collections that are [...]
Cicada Daydream: Shade Garden Preview … and Cloud9 has also updated its website with images of their first collection. Hoedown Barn Dance fabric at Reprodepot SaÃdos da Concha: Dress to Impress :: SoHoMode jezze: Birds of a Feather – South African textile designers featured in Obrigado magazine Rosalie Quinlan got her bolts of her Grandmother’s [...]
Shade Garden is the second collection by Michelle Engel Bencsko for Henry Glass. She just posted this sneak peek showing the two colorways, blue bell (top) coral bell (bottom). (Note: not all the prints are represented.) I am loving the deep blue, the seedlings, the snails and mushrooms … The always-on-top-of-things Michelle has already prepared [...]
Big news from Michelle Engel Bencsko of Cicada Studio today — she and business partner Gina Pantastico are launching an organic fabric manufacturing company Cloud9 fabrics. Cloud9 will offer modern, eco-friendly fabrics for the crafting/sewing community. I’m loving the design aesthetic of the website and blog so I’m sure the debut collection(s) will be just [...]
Michelle Engel Bencsko of Cicada Studio has just introduced these four lovely and versatile geometric designs on cotton/linen blend fabric. I loved her recent collection Nature Baby too.
More greatness from Michelle of Cicada Studio: a tutorial on creating plaids in Photoshop, which includes a free template. If you’re not familiar with weaving terminology, see here and here. And for some plaid inspiration, see my all my posts tagged “plaid.”
Michelle of Cicada Studio has unveiled Dogwood, her quilt fabric collection for Henry Glass. It will be available in October. Congratulations Michelle!
Three fabric designers have recently shared a bit about various aspects of their design process. Michelle Engle Bencsko of Cicada Studio answers a reader’s questions about the finer points of going from idea to pattern to collection. Elizabeth House writes about how her upcoming line LizzyDish got started, and about the often frustrating process of [...]
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